Word: economist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DECLINE OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM-Lewis Corey-Covici, Friede ($4). Readers who want to know the orthodox Communist point of view toward U. S. history, politics, business and society will find it on the grand scale in Economist Corey's huge tome. With its 622 pages divided into 26 chapters and well packed with dramatic graphs, notes, sources and index, The Decline of American Capitalism is the most exhaustive critique of U. S. social structure from the Marxian slant yet to appear. Other economists will dispute Author Corey's charts, tables, sources, as well as conclusions, but they cannot...
...saved only by NRA from cut-throat competition, so farmers producing too much wheat and cotton could be saved only by AAA's crop reductions. But hardly had Dr. Tugwell last week finished telling his radio audience about the "economy of abundance" when up popped a government-paid economist to deny its existence. According to this latest New Deal critic, the "economy of abundance" is the product of "mental astigmatism" and distorted statistics, incapable of standing examination in the light of facts...
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), great English philosopher-economist, arranged for his skeleton to attend the centennial celebration of his death (TIME, June 20, 1932). When not at commemorative gatherings, the Bentham skeleton sits in a wooden box at the University of London, dressed in Bentham's own clothes. The Bentham skull, fleshed out with tinted wax and hair, lies on the floor of the box between the Bentham foot bones...
...Appointing three members of a new National Mediation Board to settle railway labor disputes: 1) William M. Leiserson, Estonian-born economist, who on the day of his appointment resigned as chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to return to his job as Professor of Sociology at Antioch College. 2) James W. Carmalt, longtime legal adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission and now adviser to Railway Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. 3) John Carmody, onetime mediator for the National Labor Board, now chief engineer for Federal Emergency Relief Administration...
...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...